Lady&#39;s and girl&#39;s shadowproof slip



Sept. 8, 1942.

E. FISHER v -2,295,498

wars AND enuus SHADOWPROOF.SLIP Filed Aug. 8, 1940 NI/5N TOR Patented Sept. 8, 1942 LADYS AND GIRLS SHADOWPROOF SLIP Elizabeth Fisher, Providence, R. I. r 7 Application August 8, 1940, Serial No. 351,897

1 Claim.

This invention relates to womens undergarments, more particularly to a slip.

Certain clothing worn by women will transmit light to such an extent that when the human figure of the woman stands in light of certain intensity sufiicient light will be transmitted through the clothing worn, but not through the limbs, so that there is a shadow cast by the limbs upon the clothing to provide what is termed silhouetting. This is an undesirable condition in women's clothing, and attempts have been made to prevent the occurrence without unduly increasing the warmth of the clothing. Usually such attempts are made by a slip or skirt formed such, for instance, as by two-ply material or the like to prevent the transmission of light.

One of the objects of this invention is to prevent the silhouetting of the human figure, when clothed, by the use of lace, a material of openwork nature but yet of sufiicient density to have a major portion of its surface well covered.

Another object of this invention is to use an openwork material which will have sufficient coverage to itself cast a strong shadow and thus render the shadow cast by the limbs indistinct and not noticeable.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, as will be more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is an elevation showing the garment on a person;

Figs. 2 and 3 are elevational views of modified arrangements.

This invention proceeds upon the theory that I will use an openwork porous material which will be cool, such as lace, and it will be either a single ply inset into a slip, or an applique upon a slip. The material will itself throw a strong shadow on the outer garment of the wearer and thus render any shadow which is thrown on the outer garment by the limbs of the wearer indistinct and not noticeable and thus prevent the silhcuetting of the figure. The material "A must be of sufiicient area to perform the function at a desired location and is usually in a triangular form such as shown at It in Fig. 1, inset into a slip I I which is of a material which would ordinarily permit light to pass to a suflicient extent so that silhouetting would occur if the lace were not present.

This lace will extend from the lower edge of the garment and to a height just below the hips. It will be of a generally triangular shape, wider at the bottom to cover the space which is more than a width between the legs and then tapering as its height increases and terminating at substantially the crotch. The particular character of the lace is such that it will have a good coverage by which I mean that more than half of its area will be closed, while allowing openings at other portions thereof. The lace may be made up of smaller sections sewed together or woven in the desired width.

The lace may be appliqued upon this material, but it is unnecessary that this portion of the material be used, and therefore I will use only the lace under most conditions.

In Fig. 2 I have illustrated a modified arrangement of the lace in that the lace covers the entire lower portion of the garment, and extends circularly about the entire garment, while in Fig. 3 I have illustrated the lace as located similarly to the showing in Fig. 1, but here the area is covered by strips of lace of narrow widths with their upper ends arranged in an echelon arrangement. Some decorative lace is also placed at the top of the garment as illustrated in Fig. 1.

I claim:

A womans undergarment having a skirt portion of alace ply of openwork material with its major area covered and located from the bottom edge of the garment to a height just below the hips and of a width to cover the outline of the legs for casting a shadow on the outer garment and thus preventing a distinct shadow outline of the limbs appearing on this outer garment.

ELIZABETH FISHER. 

